Trump’s Great Failing Could Be Basic Arithmetic
I cringe when I hear someone say that Trump is an idiot.
Yes, we hear the former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson say, “He’s a “f***ing moron,” and any of the dozens of similar epithets thrown at him by the people most closely connected to him, but it seems clear that the former president’s major mental defect is not stupidity, but the inability to see what’s good for him for more than an hour or two into the future.
And here we have the latest scandal: entertaining people at Mar-a-Lago whose views are directly antithetical to the vast majority of Americans.
About dining with “Ye” and Nick Fuentes, he must have had a thought: “these people are celebrities, and they like me, and I desperately want to surround myself with folks like this.” Of course they like you, and of course they make you feel good, but these peoples’ values are repulsive to most of the U.S. electorate, and thus, this tactic is a solid loser.
An even stronger case could be made about Trump’s call to abandon the Constitution. Even the imbeciles who form his base understand that “free speech” and “the right to bear arms” lie at the very core of the United States.
Perhaps what I’m saying is that where he falls down is in math. His narcissism cuts him off from the concept that he is despised by a huge majority of U.S. voters, a group that’s growing larger by the hour.
And the stakes couldn’t be higher. We’re not talking about failing to get the 2024 GOP nomination; we’re talking about dying in federal prison.
Nowadays one never knows when the “party of law and order” is going to show the world how completely insincere it is, here, by showing no support of the police who protected them during the January 6th insurrection.
My wife is decorating our Christmas tree in advance of a party we’re hosting tomorrow evening. My job is putting on music of the season to keep her in the mood as she picks out the ornaments and arranges them to her pleasure.
It hasn’t been a good couple of years for felons who identify as Republican.
A reader reports: I ordered six weeks ago still nothing still nothing – paid for still nothing – regretting my order.
If you’ll pardon this woman’s French, she actually makes a good point.
From Emily Post: Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
The Internet is beating up poor Sean Spicer (first press secretary under Donald Trump) because he doesn’t know the difference between Dday (June 6, 1944) and Pearl Harbor Day (December 7, 1941).
There have been neo-Nazis in American society, their numbers ebbing and rising, ever since the Third Reich was put down in 1945. They are a scourge to civilization, because they remind us of everything that is wrong with the human race, in particular its capacity for hatred and its inability to reason and to exhibit empathy for others.
